He once stated that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe". Sacks was appointed a CBE for services to medicine in the 2008 Birthday Honours. He and his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain were the subject of " Musical Minds", an episode of the PBS series Nova. In addition to the information content, the beauty of his writing style is especially treasured by many of his readers. His books include a wealth of narrative detail about his experiences with his patients and his own experiences, and how patients and he coped with their conditions, often illuminating how the normal brain deals with perception, memory, and individuality. His writings have been featured in a wide range of media The New York Times called him a " poet laureate of contemporary medicine", and "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century". He also published hundreds of articles (both peer-reviewed scientific articles and articles for a general audience), not only about neurological disorders but also insightful book reviews and articles about the history of science, natural history, and nature.
His numerous other best-selling books were mostly collections of case studies of people, including himself, with neurological disorders.
His treatment of those patients became the basis of his 1973 book Awakenings, which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated feature film in 1990, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. After a fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he served as neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital's chronic-care facility in the Bronx, where he worked with a group of survivors of the 1920s sleeping sickness encephalitis lethargica, who had been unable to move on their own for decades. He interned at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and completed his residency in neurology and neuropathology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career. Oliver Wolf Sacks CBE FRCP (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
Physician, professor, author, neurologist Non-fiction books about his psychiatric and neurological patients University of Oxford ( BA 1954, BM BCh 1958)
0 kommentar(er)
